13 Humanities positions at Swansea University in PhD

Computer Science: Fully Funded EPSRC and RCNDE PhD Scholarship: Real Time Tracking of Cognitive Load to Assess Human Factors During Inspections

Tracking of Cognitive Load to Assess Human Factors During Inspections Many industries are relocating workers from hazardous environments to supervisory rooms, where they need to engage with automated systems

Computer Science Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: Elevating Comparative Judgement Using a Large-Scale Human-In-The-Loop Bayesian Active Learning Approach (Ecstatic)

Using a Large-Scale Human-In-The-Loop Bayesian Active Learning Approach (Ecstatic) The Comparative Judgment (CJ) method, which has gained traction in UK schools over the past decade, involves assessors

Computer Science: Fully Funded EPSRC DTP PhD Scholarship: Real-Time Spoken Language Understanding for Social Care Robots

the robot has made a mistake, in real time and without delay. To build these SLU algorithms, the project will involve collecting data with pairs of human participants in a Virtual Reality environment. The

Civil Engineering: Fully Funded EPSRC and TWI PhD Scholarship: AI-Driven Investigation into Predictive Non-Destructive Evaluation

focus of this project. Both UT and XCT techniques can produce large 3D datasets that can be challenging to interrogate for human experts to fully analyse. Small defects or anomalies may be missed when

Medicine: Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES): Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: The in vivo mechanistic dissection of lifespan extension pathways using senolytic compounds in the African Turquoise Killifish model of ageing

no individual is disease-free.  As such, drug discovery research is focusing on potential interventions that enhance the human health span. One area of research focus is on the reversal of cellular senescence

Computer Science Fully Funded Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Enhancing Cardiomyocyte Dynamic Network Analysis with Machine Learning (Ecidna-ML)

Cardiomyocyte Dynamic Network Analysis with Machine Learning (Ecidna-ML) This project represents a new approach to map dynamical interactions in networks of human cardiac cells. Network dyssynchronisation is a

Law: Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES): Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: Vulnerability in International Criminal Law

. Wars and human rights abuses can cause people to suffer from genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. These situations are frequently dealt with in international criminal law, either

History Fully Funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD Scholarship: From Wales to the World: A History of the Children’s Peace and Goodwill Message

the history of the first fifty years of the Goodwill Message, analysing how visions of peace were articulated in the face of international turmoil and questioning how young people appear in the historical

Aerospace Engineering: Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Thermal Mechanical Joints

-physics understanding and modelling. Specifically, this project will investigate the thermal-mechanical relationship in assembled structures. The student will utilise a newly acquired environmental chamber

Electronic and Electrical Engineering Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Wireless Power Transfer System for Medical Implant Devices

transmitter and position of the IMD inside the human body, the operating frequency and its effect on the body’s tissue, and size of the WPT system are some of the major considerations. Therefore, the research